Monthly Archive for September, 2005

That must have been an awful big suitcase Adam took to the Berlin Art Show. He’s sent me a list of the artists he’s showing…

September 30-October 6 2005 The Arena Eichnerstrasse 3 Treptow The Glass House Berlin
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LIVERPOOL
Jill Rock co-curator
Artists-
David Medalla John Dugger Laden Fur Nichts Uwe Karsten Gunther George Lund Gaynor Sweeney Roberta Kravitz Colin Serjent Tony Knox Simon Bendi Neal Brown Charlotte Moth Sico Carlier Richard Wilkie Riley and The North West Artologists Kate Fallon Cousins Jill Fallon Cousins Gary Sollars Marc Patzold Peter Schnaake Simone Weigelt BRAIN CELL Jessica Wilkes Sara Galaxia Association Carte Blanche Turkish Foundation For Wate Products CZLovecraft Jacques Vilegle Rita McNamara The Duplex Planet Jose Roberto Sechi MARINO Baraba Shkyn walking picasso The Big Cheeze B.SAVEDPOST RAZ Jenny Pringle Ofar Quarson thisdildoismadebyblackanddicker Mr Mike Mosher Jo Derbyshire Jo Gough Sergio Monteiro de Almeida Stephen R Olivier S.Finn Domenico Severino Vincenzo Ceccato Rafaella Losapio ZEROTRE Alexander Hempel Suzi Roewer Cyril Lepetit Cian Quayle Ruby Lynn Reyner Andrew Reyner Calum F Ker Deborah Wargon Kitty Redford Laura Cristin Liz Edgar Gulsen Bal Geraldine Gallavardine Hans Christian Lotz Klaus Kampner Loretta Fahrenholz Sue Milburn KENJI Janne Schaffer Kristine Agagaard Mona Wehr MOTHMAN Nicole Mollett Jessica Wilkes Sandra Hetzl Reynolds Kristin Posehn Nino Ruju Ryosuke Cohen Jenny Pringle Catherine Redford Jerome Chazeix

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www.berlinerkunstsalon.de
www.museumman.org
www.artinliverpool.com

To mark Black History Month the Museum of Liverpool Life is hosting a small display of artwork produced by some of the region’s most innovative and original artists – local children. Produced for a competition to celebrate Refugee Week 2005 (June), the vibrant work will be on display from Friday 30 September to 28 October 2005.I nearly didn’t make it to the launch in time. I passed Waterstones book shop on the way and there was a huge queue of people waiting to meet Cynthia Lennon who was signing her book in which she spills the beans about how John wasn’t such a wonderful guy after all. Oh no, and we just named our airport after him!
Then I passed WH Smiths and there was an even bigger queue of people waiting to meet Robbie Fowler who was signing his book in which he spills the beans about how Gerard Houllier was a bit of a back-stabber to say the least. Oh no, didn’t we all say he was marvelous when we won about 20 trophies in one season?
And you know how us Brits love queueing, in fact Roman Ondak has made it into an artform but I resisted the temptation and made it to the Museum of Liverpool Life in time for coffee and cakes and the presentation of the prizes to the children in the presence of proud parents, teachers etc.
Its only a small exhibition of the 10 prizewinning entries in a corner of the room on the first floor, you can see images of them on the NML website and here is Felix Leyland from Abbots Lea School who won 1st prize in the Key Stage 3&4 standing next his picture.

LOOK AT ME
Liverpool community group in national exhibition
Self-portraits, produced in workshops held at National Museums Liverpool have been selected for display at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The self-portraits will be included in the exhibition, Look at Me, running until 19 March 2006.

Working in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and various galleries and charities around Britain, National Museums Liverpool commissioned local community group Sola Arts to run a series of workshops at World Museum Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery. They worked alongside professional artists who gave advise on portrait drawing, and used the some of the paintings from the collections at the Walker as inspiration.

The six-month long project was aimed specifically at groups like the homeless, asylum-seekers and those with mental health issues to help them engage with the arts by creating their own self-portraits. In turn, the work produced offers an insight in to the diversity of people living in Britain today.

The work of one of the participants, Raymond Matisko, was of such a high standard that the National Portrait Gallery used his portrait to front the advertising campaign for the exhibition.

Raymond, 23, a first year student at Manchester Metropolitan University, came to Liverpool from war-torn Uganda three-and-a-half years ago as refugee, after his family abandoned him as a child. Alone and neglected in a strange country, he almost turned to suicide. However, he used this adversity as his inspiration.

“I used colours to represent different things I have experienced. The blue represents all of the difficulties and bad times that I have been through in the past, and the red in my eyes shows the terrible things that I have seen during the civil war in Uganda,” says Raymond.

“But, the yellow is positive and represents all my hopes and aspirations for the future, like completing my business and economics degree and getting a fulfilling job at the end of it.